In honor of National Library Week 2007, Thomson Gale is launching librareo, an online community for libraries and the people who love them. To start off the project with a big splash, librareo is hosting an “I Love My Library” video contest. The top prize is $10,000 to be split equally between the videomakers and …Read more »

The Library of Congress (LC) has awarded the Washtenaw County Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled (LBPD) the first annual Network Subregional Library of the Year Award. Congratulations to librarians Margaret Wolfe and Mary Udoji! LC’s National Library Service Director Frank Kurt Cylke said that the library has “demonstrated excellence as regional and subregional …Read more »

Kevin Driedger taught a book repair workshop at MLC last week. Additional photos of the workshop are available on MLC’s Flickr page. Check out Kevin’s Library Preservation blog too! Thanks for another great workshop, Kevin!

Mary Minow posted “Do Michiganders have a state constitutional right to library cards?” on the Library Law Blog.  See also WOOD TV story about the Goldstone v. Bloomfield Township Public LIbrary case to be heard by the Michigan Supreme Court today.

You will need a Flickr account to participate in the 365 Library Days Project. For those of you who do not yet have Flickr accounts, MLC has posted a PowerPoint presentation on our Web 2.0 Tools web page with step-by-step information on how to set up a Flickr account. Go to: http://mlcnet.org/cms/sitem.cfm/library_tools/web_2.0/ Update on the …Read more »

Libraryman, Michael Porter, launched the 365 Library Days Project on April 8. See his blog for details. Michael encourages libraries to sign up for the 365 Library Days Project. Participating libraries agree to upload 365 pictures from in, around or about their libraries and to tag: 365libs. He writes, “Just imagine what a valuable historic …Read more »

The Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in the case, Goldstone v. Bloomfield Township Public Library.  See articles in Battle Creek Enquirer and Detroit Free Press. The case involves the question of borrowing public library materials by non-residents. For further information, see MLA’s PPC web page.

Kevin Driedger of the Library of Michigan has started a new blog for Michigan librarians: Library Preservation. To add this blog to your RSS reader, right-click here and copy to paste into your RSS reader. [For more information on RSS, see MLC’s RSS web page.] This new blog promises not to be boring! In his …Read more »

Judy Hauser, information media consultant for Oakland Schools in Waterford, Michigan, has an article published in the February 2007 issue of Computers in Libraries. Click here to connect to the MeL Databases link to Judy’s cover story article, “Media specialists can learn Web 2.0 tools to make school more cool; using Web 2.0 tools can …Read more »

Today’s cover story in the Lansing State Journal features various Michigan ventures in Second Life, including MLC’s presence in Second Life. The main focus of the story, Bev and David Lang of LTS Video, are old friends of Michigan libraries.  They produced the video, “Establishing a District Library,” for the Library of Michigan in 1990 …Read more »